A qui profite la formation en entreprise ?

This paper addresses the issue of productivity gain sharing from on-the-job training between employers and employees. When they are trained, workers can value part of the skills on the labour market. This ?general? effect of training should theoretically impact the wage in the firm. Employees may find it also valuable to train in specific technologies if they are able to capture a share of the firm?s rents (Oosterbeek, Sloof and Sonnemans [2007]; McDonald and Solow [1981]). Using a simple model, it is possible to isolate each of these two effects on wages, given that fixed capital investments themselves generate a specific effect of rent sharing. Estimations are based on panel of firms over the 2000-2007 period. On-the-job training productivity gain sharing would be around 30 to 50 % for employees. Results suggest that the main, if not only, sharing channel would be the specific effect. The latter would operate at the collective rather than individual level, which would explain why surveys highlight only a small impact of on-the-job training on wages.